Welcome to What The Heck's Creature Feature! These episodes release on Saturdays and look at folklore and cryptids from around the world! The same academic style is applied to these episodes, but they look at history and eyewitness reports before describing the creature of the week! A lot of the time, theories are a bit more scarce than the main episodes, but the content is still just as interesting.

This week we're looking at history. Lycanthropy has been around since ancient times. Over time, the folklore has been set in stone. But, there are real life werewolves too. What was the original story? Who was historically a werewolf? What could they really be? Listen in to find out!

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References:-

“The Monstrous Stories of History’s ‘real’ Werewolves” Sky HISTORY, https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-monstrous-story-of-historys-real-werewolves.  

“Lycanthropy between Myth and Archaeology” Archeotravelers.Com, https://www.archeotravelers.com/en/2022/10/31/lycanthropy-between-myth-and-archaeology/. 

“Lunacy the Relation of Lunar Phases to Mental III-Health.” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, no. 3, SAGE Publications, Apr. 1978, pp. 149–52. Crossref, doi:10.1177/070674377802300304. 

“Clinical Lycanthropy” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_lycanthropy. 

“Did Viking Berserkers Really Exist? And How Did They Fight?” HistoryExtra, https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/the-truth-about-viking-berserkers/. 

“The Ancient Origins of Werewolves.” The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-origins-of-werewolves-104775. 

“Mythical Creatures: A History of European Werewolves” Just History Posts, https://justhistoryposts.com/2020/11/30/mythical-creatures-a-history-of-european-werewolves/. 

“Wolves among Us: Five Real-Life Werewolves from History” CNET, https://www.cnet.com/culture/wolves-among-us-five-real-life-werewolves-from-history/. 

“Werewolf Legends.” HISTORY, https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-the-werewolf-legend#the-shape-shifter-as-werewolf. 

You can email Glen at [email protected] with any of your spooky stories, unexplained events, mysteries that you want him to look at, or anything you'd like him to correct or address.

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